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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For the seventh year in a row, the local non profit organization Finafinau and a team of seven attended the annual week long Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress in Sheperdstown, West Virginia, June 24 - 30, 2023.
This year's team consisted of six members...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — July 1 of this year marked the beginning of American Samoa Community College (ASCC) President Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato’s three-year appointment as a Commission member with the Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the entity which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council Executive Director Kitty Simonds is criticizing the contradiction between NOAA’s proposed sanctuary in the Pacific Remote Islands, which claims to preserve cultural influences, while simultaneously abolishing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) in its US Territories Public Debt Outlook — 2023 Update report, issued last week Thursday found that “American Samoa continues to have some financial management and reporting issues.”
While American Samoa has submitted its...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Due to lack of jurisdiction to investigate local government entities, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will not be investigating the on-the-job fatality at the government owned shipyard at Satala.
The incident resulted in the death of 23-year-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With business opportunities in the pipeline, as the territory moves forward with diversifying its economy, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga says that American Samoa is “now working towards formalizing a Public-Private framework” which would allow investment by the territory’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last Thursday night’s Hawaiian Airlines flight heading to Pago Pago returned to Honolulu before it arrived in the territory due to a lavatory issue on the aircraft prompting the delay of flight-arrival in the territory until early Friday morning, according to an airline...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Kanana Fou Theological College is celebrating a momentous milestone — since the college’s founding 40 years ago, there have been over 400 theological student graduates. This is according to General Secretary for the CCCAS, Rev Nafaatali Falealii in an exclusive interview...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Known environmentalists for over 20 years in American Samoa have decided to give their legal argument recently dismissed in a Hawaii Court a rest.
When asked about her next move following a decision by Hawaii Judge Seabright suggesting she take her case to the American...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov Lemanu P.S. Mauga drew a parallel between his administration’s initiatives on youth and First Samoan Full Gospel Pentecostal Church’s same commitment in his keynote address at the dedication ceremony of the church’s newly constructed Peteli Academy Hall on June 28,...